I've always been told Valentine's Day is a holiday that celebrates love -- a couple's love for each other, not just a man's love for a woman. Or her love of him, for that matter. It's supposed to be about them. Yet everything I've learned about how to act on...

Do something different this New Year's: Start talking to your kids about sexuality. I don't mean tell them how often you have sex or what your favorite positions are; those things are none of their business. But you should start talking about why people date, why they kiss, why they...

"Guys just want sex and aren't interested in relationships." "Men are just Casanovas, players or studs." It's the story we typically hear about male sexuality, whether it's guys like Barney on "How I Met Your Mother," Charlie on "Two and A Half Men" or even General David Petraeus. It's the...

Boys want to know about sex and sexuality. Although we often act as if boys already know it all, they are not born with extensive knowledge of sex or sexuality. Research tells us that nearly all teenage boys (and most teenage girls) have seen online pornography. The

On Friday morning, we woke up to the horrible news that a gunman had opened fire during a midnight movie in a Colorado theatre. By mid-morning, a suspect had been named: James Holmes. A man.

He joins a dubious list: Jared Lee Loughner (Rep. Gabrielle Giffords), Major Midal Malik Hasan...

It's almost Father's Day. Across America, millions of people are struggling with the annual question of what to buy. Many of us find it harder to buy for Dad than for Mom. It seems like there's always something that Mom needs, and it also seems like there's a broader range...

Frank Bruni's recent op-ed in the New York Times,"The Bleaker Sex," asks if disconnected, worthless sex is the new state of the world for young women. Bruni laments that "what's happening [in the bedroom] remains something of a muddle, if not a mess."

Although potentially provocative, the article...